Strap-fastener.



F. C. HARRIMAN.

STRAP FASTENVER. APPLlCATiON FILED MAY 8. 1916.

1,229,263., Patented June 12, 1917.

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FREDERICK C. HARRIMAN, OF ARDSLEY-ON-HUDSON, IRVINGTON, NEW YORK.

STRAP-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

Application filed May 8, 1916. Serial No. 95,995.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. HARRI- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ardsley-on-Hudson, in Irvington, in the county of VVestchester and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Strap-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to strap fasteners, and its objects are to aiford a simple means for securing together the ends of a band around articles of various sizes, to dispense with prongs, sharp buckle tongues, and holes therefor, to utilize the tightness of the band as a means for insuring the binding of the fastener and to simplify and render more effective the construction and operation of the several parts.

I am aware that there are now in common use many devices designed for binding or securing various papers, documents, boxes and other articles of almost every nature and description. I am also aware that belts employing buckles of various construction are also in common use. I have found, however, from observation and experiment that such forms of binding devices are in large part objectionable, be-

cause of their employing as a part of the securing device features which of necessity tend to tear, cut or in other ways to destroy or diminish the tensile strength of the belt or band to which they are applied.

WVith my improved strap fastener, however, I have been able to overcome the defects and objections above set forth. There being no prongs or claws employed as a part of the securing means, I have eliminated what has heretofore been a common cause of objection. With the simplification of the construction of my metallic plate, I am thereby enabled to use less metal, while, at the same time, not detracting in the least from its value as a securing device. Through the use of the undulating tongue I am enabled to secure a much firmer grip upon the end of the hand than heretofore, the undulation thereof serving to press down and embed itself in the fabric and firmly to hold the end of the band in the desired position.

Attention is hereby directed to the drawing, in which similar numerals of designation refer to similar several views:

Figure 1 is a View in perspective showing the application of my improved strap fastener to a bundle of ordinary size;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of my rectangular securing strip of resilient metal showing one end of the strap afiixed thereto; and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the se curing device shown I in Fig. v1, taken through the metal strip and parts adjacent thereto.

Referring to the drawing:

The strip 1 is stamped from a large 1netallic sheet in the manner which is well known in the art for stamping out any article of similar character. Preferably, the said sheet is of such thickness as to admit of considerable resiliency in the strip, after the same has been stamped therefrom.

As will be observed in Fig. 2, the said strip 4 is preferably rectangular in shape and has near one end thereof the tongue 5 which is integral therewith and extends laterally thereto, and has the portion 6 concave in shape, and the portion 7 convex, thereby rendering the said tongue undulating in character. Out of said strip, in proximity to said tongue, is out a large rectangular slot forming on each side of said tongue the openings 8 and 9, the latter of which is made considerably wider than the former, for the purpose which will be hereinafter described. At the other end of the said rectangular strip is the slot 10 similar in shape to the opening 9 and having affixed thereto the end 11 of the strip 12. All of the said slots are of such length as readily to admit the full width of the strip 11.

To secure my improved strap fastener to a parcel or other object, the said device is placed generally in the position shown in Fig. 1. The free end 13 is then passed downwardly through the opening 9, whence it passes underneath the tongue 5 and the main portion of the strip 4, emerging through the opening 10 which as well as the opening 9, is of sufficient Width to admit of the ready insertion of both ends of the strip 12. The end 13 is then carried backwardly toward the tongue 5 and is inserted beneath the same, when it will occupy parts throughout the the position shown in Fig. 3. It will accordingly be observed that the tongue 5 presses down upon two layers of thestrip 12 and is embedded therein, and serves to bind the said layers firmly against the por- 'tion 14: adjacent to the opening 9.

As will be observed, any tension upon the ends of the strip 13 or, in fact, upon any portion of the strip 12, serves to bind the ends of said strip only the more firmly in position, and thereby to utilizethe tightness of the band to efi'ect a locking of the parts and prevent dislodgm'ent of the securing strip 4.

hat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a strap fastener, a buckle consisting of a flat metallic plate, one end of which has a wide elongated slot in which dips an undulated ribbonlike tongue eX- Copies 10f this patent may be obtained for tending laterally to said plate, and the other end of which has a narrow elongated slot glxte'nding in the same direction as the other ot. v

2. In a strap fastener, a buckle consisting of a fiat metallic plate, from one end of which is cut an undulated tongue dipping into a wide elongated slot, said tongue being located nearer the inner than the outer edge of said slot, and the other end of which plate has a narrow elongated slot extending in the same direction as the other slot.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto i set my hand, in presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 4th day of May, 1916.

FREDERICK o, HARRIMAN.

IVitnesses:

THEO. KEELER, Jr., H. G. SLATER.

five-cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

